PHA-Exchange> Bellagio Conference on International Nurse Migration

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From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) 


Bellagio Conference on   International Nurse Migration

This project from AcademyHealth  also interfaced with other ongoing international initiatives concerned with migration, such as the Joint Learning Initiative and the new U.N. Commission on Migration. Sponsors included: Rockefeller Foundation, Nuffield Trust, Canadian Nursing Association, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Bellagio, July 5-10, 2005 

Website: http://www.academyhealth.org/international/nursemigration/recommendations.htm 

"...Nursing shortages in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and many other developed countries, have become a global problem. In recent years, provider organizations in developed countries have been actively recruiting nurses from English-speaking countries. With an expected shortage of 270,000 nurses in the U.S. by the year 2010, the potential impact of private sector recruitment of nurses on health systems in poor countries, especially those that are small, is devastating. While some supply countries, such the Philippines and India, have traditionally promoted emigration of professionals to generate remittances, most now view the recruitment of nurses as a looming threat. The greatest damage, however, will be in the countries with high burden of HIV/AIDS, such as the Sub Saharan African countries, where a stable health workforce a prerequisite for any effective aid efforts. 

For the first phase of this project, nine case studies, three from developed countries and six from developing countries, were commissioned. Researchers gathered data on the existing stocks of nurses, as well as the inflow and the outflow from the professional and their countries. They also performed a stakeholder analysis of the interests and viewpoints of multiple sectors within their countries in relation to this issue. The nine teams then met in July 2005, together with representatives from major international agencies, to deliberate three questions: 

1) What are the continuing information gaps that need to be addressed in order to inform policy? 
2) What domestic policies that address the flow of nurses in both rich and poor countries are politically feasible? 
3) What is the potential for international agreements on the recruitment of nurses? 

The project also interfaced with other ongoing international initiatives concerned with migration, such as the Joint Learning Initiative and the new U.N. Commission on Migration. Sponsors include: Rockefeller Foundation, Nuffield Trust, Canadian Nursing Association, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Recommendations developed at the Bellagio meeting, power point presentations, a participant list and a photograph of the group may be found below

Recommendations 

Presentations: 

United Kingdom: Jim Buchan, Professor, Queen Margaret University College, Scotland 

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides 

Sub-Saharan Africa Synthesis: Delanyo Dovolo, Independent Consultant 

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

India: Binod Khadria, Professor of Economics, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

Commonwealth Policies: Peggy Vidot, Chief Programme Officer, Health Section, Social Transformation Programmes Division, Commonwealth Secretariat

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides 

United States: Linda Aiken, Professor and Director, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania 

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

Canada: Lisa Little, Health Human Resources Consultant Manager, HHR Component, Canadian Nurse Practitioner Initiative,Canadian Nurses Association

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

Jamaica: Jean Yan, Chief Scientist Nursing and Midwifery, EIP/HRH, World Health Organization

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

Caribbean Review: Marla Salmon, Dean and Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Director, Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, Emory University

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

Philippines: Marilyn Elgado-Lorenzo, Director, Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies, National Institutes of Health-Philippines, University of the Philippines, Manila 

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

China: Zack Fang, Consultant, Health Administration Program, Washington University, School of Medicine, Vice President, Corporate Development
First Call Team, Inc.

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

WHO Stakeholders Meeting on Nurses' and Midwives' Contributions to MDGs: Jean Yan, Chief Scientist Nursing and Midwifery, EIP/HRH, World Health Organization

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides

Joint Learning Initiative: Kim Beazor, Chief Operating Officer, The Nuffield Trust 

PowerPoint Slides | PDF Handout of Slides



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